Rider University Art Gallery: In Natural HabitatFeaturing the work of Audrey Ushenko.

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 24, 5-7 p.m.

Artist’s Talk: Thursday, October 1, 7 p.m.Born in Princeton, N.J., artist Audrey Ushenko is currently a professor in the Art Department of Indiana University-Purdue University in Fort Wayne, Ind., where she teaches figurative drawing, advanced painting and art history. She received a Master of Arts in Painting and PH.D. in Art History from Northwestern University.

Ushenko has had over 22 solo exhibitions and has participated in numerous group exhibitions. She has been awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, A National Academy of Design Award and an Indiana Artist Painting Prize. She exhibits her work on a regular base at Denise Bibro Fine Arts, N.Y., and her work is in the collections of Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse University, University of Illinois, Minnesota Museum of Art and The National Academy of Design.

She is a representational painter whose themes deal with place, time and allegory from direct observation, with subjects featuring still-life, landscape and figure compositions